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November 4, 2010

Cracked

Tomorrow.Tomorrow the Earthquake Commission accessor comes to inspect the Skudder House. It feels as though everything - and nothing - hinges on this visit. We have not been made homeless as so many Canterbury people have. We are not living in a house crazed with uncertainty. The ground rules have not shifted our very foundations. Yet... if you remember the stairway to uncertainty (6 Oct) this is what it leads to. I am anxious, resigned, prepared for the worst - a demolition order.